The gloom around Australia cricket has reached new levels of pathos with
Nathan Hauritz, the rejected off-spin bowler, spotted giving away his kit
from the garage of his home on the outskirts of Sydney with the words: “I
don’t play for them any more.”

As recently as October, Hauritz was the frontline slow bowler in the Test team
and was named in the extended squad of 17 for the first Ashes Test in
Brisbane. But his disenchantment at slipping down the list became painfully
evident over the weekend.